The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

why shine as bright as the sun, when you can shine as bright as the moon and let the stars shine beside you

Bucketing your time or your tasks keeps you in the zone.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel

Somehow my soul remembers it all, hers doesn't.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.