If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

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

There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.

My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.