A leapord never changes his stripes.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way

A zebra does not change its spots.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone.

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes...

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

From abundance springs satiety.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.