Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

God forgives those who invent what they need.