You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

I have never been much of a researcher

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway.

People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.