I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

I think it's very unhealthy to claim you love someone you don't know.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.