She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

Money always ends up making you blue.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.