In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.