Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.