One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
No art is possible without a dance with death.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Never index your own book.
Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
Luck, good or bad is not the hand of God. Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.
Life goes on, yes – and a fool and his self-respect are soon parted.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.
