Quotes About Author

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.

We do not have a racial crisis; we have an ideology crisis. We have socialists, Marxists, and liberals who have hijacked my race.

The Socialists did not want to work with us, so we created an alliance with the FPO, and we are making good policies of reform for our country.

Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.

I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

Most of stuff I audition for is stuff I think is socially relevant.

The only way I know how to write is socially and getting immediate feedback on my phone.

I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.

In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what I've noticed... is, under the guise of empowering women, they end up being real cruel. And I think, 'Jeez, here in my patriarchy, we wouldn't do that.'