Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.