French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Money can't buy off the lightning.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.