You need to stop this defeatist aura around you. When you project sadness, you push people away.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

There is no way to love, love is the way of life.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

I think I've got a funny face.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.