Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

It's hard to make progress with grief.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.