"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."

"Mankind has been making a mess of things for a long time. It's time we started cleaning it up."

"To understand the man, you have to understand what he wanted. And what he wanted was always the same: to be a writer."

"The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before."

"Every time I write a book, I try to make it as good as I can, and then I hope that people will read it."