I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Time wounds all heels.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.