Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

Every time you tell a lie an angel punches a unicorn in the face with a kitten.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.

The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.