My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to ano….

In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And t….

When you get the ideas, that's a thrill; when you're writing the book and it's corning out well, that's a thrill; when you finish it and other people….

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let ther….

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases..

Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part….

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and ….

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be oth….

We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more th….

An idea is a feat of association..

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an id….

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the ….

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's always with the idea, "I wonder what is go….

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate ….

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to wh….

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just wat….

A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A The….

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort ….

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two..

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work..