There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

The bourgeois are other people.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.