The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.
My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.