Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.