You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.