I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Solitude is considered un-American.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.