I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.