Satire is focused bitterness.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.