Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

I'm scared of the geese. When I was five, my mom took me down there to feed those horrible beasts and one of them nearly took my hand off.

The sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews of Eretz Israel. If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples, it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs.