I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Everyone has the answers.

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.