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

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

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.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

A boy has to peddle his book.

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.