Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.'
The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.
It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.
I'd never have written the big books in London.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.
