He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.