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

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.