Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.