No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.