All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

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

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

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.

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

I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.