Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.

The dead tread softly... And those stalking the living tread even more lightly.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.