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.

How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

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

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.