I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.