Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

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.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Everything begins with an idea.

If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.