If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.