“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.”
“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”
“You cannot con an honest man.”
“You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")”
“Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.”