Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.