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I love irony.
I like to amuse myself.
Pugs are creatures of habit.
No one bought my screenplays.
People who are obsessed amuse me.
I don't write the same book twice.
One man's holy is another woman's sublime.
It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.
We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.
I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.
I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.
'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.
Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.
Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.
I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?
Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.
It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.
You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.
At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.
Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.
Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.
You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.
There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.
Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.
I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.
What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.
I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.
I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.
The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk.