Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

Fraud makes the world go round.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.