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

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.