Bad guys do what good guys dream.

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Justice is a jagged road.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

Don't let anyone infiltrate your happiness. Protect it as if it's all you have, because it literally is.

I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.

Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich.

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.