About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.