Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.

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.

Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Your website is the window of your business. Keep it fresh, keep it exciting.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.