Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.

You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.