Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan

What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

"Listen." There's so much to be heard.

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Donald Trump removed all doubt. He is running for president as a fascist demagogue.

If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.