All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.
Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
There is so much that people take for granted.
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.