A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.