I refuse to be silenced.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I refuse to be silenced.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

I hate plots.

Pretty much my feel toward MCs is, if you really got heart, you got passion, let's get on and do something. I like doing stuff with people that's real.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

The bum was justified in his actions because he was homeless and poor. He was allowed to beg for money because the circumstances made it acceptable. Society had shunned him and he was owed that much.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend, take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.

I'm a great lover, I'll bet.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

This little girl will guard her tower with the most vicious dragon of all: indifference

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

There are people I've met in L.A. who kind of only talk about the business. Because maybe they think that's the best move.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

There are so many versions of Batman that I love so much from different artists that I had to almost stop trying to draw those versions and get past that and just draw the Jeff Lemire version of Batman eventually.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

I was a huge Spice Girls fan when I was a kid. When I was younger I had a Spice Girls poster on my wall and I watched the movie.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.