I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.