With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank.

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.