Quotes About Author

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

It's also not true that 'abuse of power' is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

We were going for an otherworldly feel, you know a lot of people tell us we look like aliens anyway. I don't know if it's just because there's two of us and we have big eyes and long necks.

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

The Aam Aadmi party is of the view that Kashmir is an integral part of India. Needless to say that I share this view.

What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.

I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

I love film, but I feeling a bit needy about returning to the stage.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

There are extraordinary positives and advantages to Facebook and social media and things that genuinely do bring us together. With that comes the horrible negatives of it, but I don't think social media is going anywhere.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

It is hurtful to read things which are not true. I am learning to focus only on my work and not pay heed to any negativity.

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.