French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.