Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.
There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.
Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
A life filled with meaning is linked to doing things that express and reflect the self.
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.
Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.
