I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.