The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.