People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present.

We are two nations,