The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.