I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.