Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.

In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.