“This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think.”

“When you start getting into the process of writing, then the characters start coming alive. And then they tell you what to write.”

“When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”

“There's an old Greek proverb that says, "society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." If you don't like what's happening around you, what's happening to culture, what's happening to men and women, what people are becoming- get out there and start digging.”

“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.”

“The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”

“When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”

“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”

“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”

“Every relationship starts out with a dream of what you think it's going to be, and you either have the tool kit when you get to the hard spots where you'll make it through, or you need to move on.”