"The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the..."
"The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes."
"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
"I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke."
"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
"I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course."
"Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and their families but also for society in general."
"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."
"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
"Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life."
"I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess."
"I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry."
"There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun."
"I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length."
"Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't."
"A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats."
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."
"I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in."
"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."
"Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect."
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
"I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways."
"Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion."
"I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time."
"In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book."
"I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician."
