The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)