It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.