Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Fiction is an improvement on life

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.