A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.