My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

There is always time for another last minute

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.