You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.