God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.