A beginning is the end of something, always.
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.
People don't say 'Zounds!' anymore.
The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.
The digital explosion has been so explosive.
Magazine articles are the new books.
What has happened to America's survival instincts?
It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
I look at Twitter as brand building.
To betray, you must first belong.
Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.
I'm determined to raise a strong girl.
If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
The world invited me many places.
Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
