What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine ... and grabbed it.

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.