I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

the worst happens when you least expect it