Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.

That’s why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It can’t be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasn’t smart enough to tell you about the wine.

When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.