Humor comes from self-confidence.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

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

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.