God is a name we give to love.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

People come as they are, and alter you as themselves.

Hate is a powerful emotion. It can take over a sane man's mind and cloud it with insanity.

Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' clearly have no grasp of irony.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.