Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.