It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.