Thank god I'm in England, because if I lived in any other country, it'd probably be the Philippines. Because with Rodrigo Duterte as the leader they couldn't really give me attitude on Donald Trump.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

The heart that gives, gathers.

Be with your loved ones and feed your soul with the deep connections that money can't buy. Your bank richness will never amount to the richness of love.

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me I can't remember why I got married.

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

I would not open windows into men's souls.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.

In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.