Occupation: Writer Birth: November 11, 1922 Death: April 11, 2007
Everything is nothing, with a twist..
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous mo….
In this world, you get what you pay for..
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon..
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes..
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety agai….
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction..
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that….
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in….
We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody ….
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school..
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are..
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no..
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead..
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him..
A man without a home can't be lost..
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the ….
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex..
I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicol….
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals..
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad yo….