I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.

My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and if I was to even understand what was going on, I had to learn the language fast.