It's Best To Give While Your Hand

Literature Isn't A Moral Beauty Contest. Its Power Arises From The Authority And Audacity With Which The Impersonation Is Pulled Off; The Belief It Inspires Is What Counts.

That Can Happen When People Die, The Argument With Them Drops Away And People So Flawed While They Were Drawing Breath That At Times They Were All But Unbearable Now Assert Themselves In The Most Appealing Way, And What Was Least To Your Liking The Day Before Yesterday Becomes In The Limousine Behind The Hearse A Cause Not Only For Sympathetic Amusement But For Admiration

I Often Have To Write A Hundred Pages Or More Before There's A Paragraph That's Alive.

Just Like Those Who Are Incurably Ill, The Aged Know Everything About Their Dying Except Exactly When.

Satire Is Moral Outrage Transformed Into Comic Art.