Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.