When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

Kyle clapped his hands together. “Goody! The Zoe dates back some 3000 years to when the Greek gods ruled.”“Who’s Zoe?” I interjected.Kyle huffed. “It’s not a who, it’s a what.

You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!

Jealousy's eyes are green.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans