The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.

People’s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what’s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce I think I'm about a hundred thousand dollars short.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part.