Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.