Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

It looks like a bothering sort of day.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.