It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.