Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'