A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

You should have died when I killed you.