Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.