His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.