Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

My advice is to run while you can.

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

I've been going to chiropractor for as long as I can remember. It's as important to my training as practicing my swing.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.