One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.