Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

Every dogma has its day.

I didn't think; I experimented.

I didn't think; I experimented.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.