Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.