You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.