Obviously the Internet makes everything easier - you get people's addresses and so on and everything seems much more accessible.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

The vegan diet is healthy and leads to a compassionate lifestyle. I've gotten so many benefits. My weight is easily maintained, my skin glows, I sleep better and I feel more energized.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.