What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1. 40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.
My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.
To be a feminist is to be alive
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.