Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Excessive regulation is costing America as much as $2 trillion a year. And I will end it very, very quickly.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.