The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED