Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Mirror mirror on the wall, Show me the one who can conquer it all

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

Rude staff, bad lighting, and dirty bathrooms are all signs of a bad restaurant and a good reason to leave a restaurant!

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.