Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.