She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Art never comes from happiness.

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were

Racism is a disease of white people

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

I'm for a stronger death penalty.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

It all comes down to money.

We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.