Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.