Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

I hire tea by the tea bag.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

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 hard to make progress with grief.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.