Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.