The irony of our culture is that people are constantly telling other people to go to hell, but no one tells them to go to heaven. - Art Buchwald

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

If a child is lucky, there will always be one Mrs. Egorkin who'll play a pivotal role in his or her life.

Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it — but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.