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.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

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

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.