You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

The ugliest truth is still better than the prettiest of lies.