If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

Are we making a bomb?" "This is a trust exercise, like in drama, " she says. "Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?

If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.But if you don't, you'll find ways to falsify it.

Even a baby can write a poem. It doesn't guarantee the sale.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about.

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.

For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.