People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law, ' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God, ' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her.

Animation is manipulating the difference.

I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.