Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.