...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.