I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.