Prayer is to the soul what oxygen is to the heart life

Love is a strange creature that no man can understand

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

People make fun of what I'm eating because they can tell I hate it. They know I am not happy eating healthy food. I look miserable - I look like I would rather be eating something else.