Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

I believe in art that conceals art.