Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.