The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?" If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?" Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story.

Sometimes dead is better

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.