THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

My life is a reading list.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.