A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

God wants someone to defend him.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.