A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.