The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.