Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'