don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

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.

Employment sells out the essence of life

My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is God.

It is proper #netiquette to be conservative in messages you send and liberal in messages you receive. NetworkEtiquette.net

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.