Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.