The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.