Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.