I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.