I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.

I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

Believe that you can whip the enemy and you have won half the battle.

António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential' and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.