Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

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.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.