I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.