I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.