He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches