You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world.

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element.

When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.

Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.