...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

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.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.