When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.