Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.