I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

All geniuses die young.

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.