I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher, ' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.