I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.