If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.