There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.