Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.