This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day.

All blame is a poor stance, if you perchance upon it.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.

You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life