To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

If you're good at it, you can win.

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.