I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.