I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Good writing is rewriting.