As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.