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

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.

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.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?

Nothing is impossible, nothing is risky, when you take the action with love, something better will happen.

I began writing about power because I had so little.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.