If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is..

You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is tha….

Cats are only human, they have their faults..

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization..

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free..

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rul….

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I fee….

When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begi….

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped….

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food..

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significan….

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones..

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses ….

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European..

Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time..

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and ….

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat..

The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for..

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by….

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not a….