Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.