Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and fe…

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

The smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian…

And you realize you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself. You realize you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself. You realize you're an alcoholic...oh, d…

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.