Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

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.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

IF your mindset does not include a personal life plan, your Life Success Project can NEVER have any chance of real success.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

The soul is covered by a thousand veils.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.