"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, crap detector."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty."

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."