I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

You are judge by your words

And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.

I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

I started my career without fans.

My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.