A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

In no other sport must the spectator move.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.