Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

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.