I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

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

Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.