The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.