Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

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.

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.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.