Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.