But don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God.

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

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

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.