I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

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.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.