I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.

Settle down, pup. I ain’t had my caffeine yet.” – Sundown

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.