What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

My big fish must be somewhere.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."