It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.