It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.