The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

Listening is an important key to HEARING.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.