The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires even more dedication than writing because wrestling represents the most difficult and rewarding objective that I have ever dedicated myself to; because wrestling and wrestling coaches are among the most disciplined and self-sacrificing people I have ever known.