Christianity is such a silly religion.

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.