Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

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

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

New York is the only real city-city.