Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.