You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place