Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.