I'm not a parent myself, but I think the best solution at this point is to slap that child across the face. It won't stop crying, but at least now it'll be doing it for a good reason.

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.

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

There are many roads, there are many choices, but never forget to chose the road of peace and happiness.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.