The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

Good-bye and hello, as always.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.