Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Americans have discovered fear.