Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.