I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

There you are! Aren't you precious?

Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.

The more comfort the less courage there is.

Life lives only in success.

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

This town needs an enema!

Sometimes it's hard to tell what's love and what's only indigestion

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.