Much in our lives is chance.

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.