When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.