What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.

If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

Good days are upon us.

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.