My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.