They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

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.

Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience

But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him

It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.