We do choose how we shall live

Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.