“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.”

“And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.”

“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.”

“Trouble is always easy to find when you have enough people looking for it.”

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! ”