One never knows when one is old for certain.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.