Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

She ran her hand over his head then gripped his hair. "More licking. Less talking.

Live your life in such a way that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying

The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

and the stars were icicles of mockery

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.