I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

Joy and sadness come by turns.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.