The U. S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.
Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.
Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.
People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.
You make a mistake, you keep going.
Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.
Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry children. No other Western industrialized nation has widespread hunger within its borders. We really must put an end to hunger in the United States if we are to keep our prosperity and protect the future.
I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.
Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Jon Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.
You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions. . . That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.