Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.

Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

By night an atheist half believes in God.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.