Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places. F.
If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone’s attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.
When someone asks, ‘Why do you think he’s not calling me?’ there’s always one answer – ‘He’s not interested.’ There’s not ever any other answer.
China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It’s like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It’s a very bad idea.
That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.
I’m such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don’t need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
You don’t have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.
It’s very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that’s why it’s a great country.
I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I’m afraid of not writing.
The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.
I’ve never had the experience of being edited and never will.
No one’s supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it’s not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
It’s very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven’t earned the right to be that afraid. It’s not like we’re living in war-torn Bosnia or something.
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don’t love to write. That would be blissful.
Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.
I woke up at five o’clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it’s not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.