We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
Worry:Interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.
It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.
When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.
The welfare system in the United States is vile.
Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
Africa is a very dangerous place.
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
I am a woman above everything else.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.
