Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.