Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

The Democratic Party represents the American brain, and the Republicans represent not the American heart, or soul, but the American gut. The argument between brain and bowel, everywhere else in the Free World, has been decided long ago in favor of brain. But Americans still - it still divides the nation, this question, here in America.

We all have names we don't know about.

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

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

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.