The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

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

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

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

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.