I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.