Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person...

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq. They actually headquartered the Iraq Ba'ath Party and...

You have to learn how to write each book.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we...

I love Jay-Z.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

The amount of money currently in your bank account is a fact. The amount you spend today is a choice. And the way you reconcile both is through clarity.

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed...

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own...

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Home is where the heart is.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.