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

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

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.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.