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.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

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

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.