If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.