His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

Kmart is incredibly supportive of the Hispanic community and is therefore an ideal partner for my exclusive collection.

The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.

I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.

The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things

I do have a Bentley. I do go out.

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow.

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.