If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.
As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back.
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.