A good deed never goes unpunished.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.