Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.