Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

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.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

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

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

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

I despise people who can't control themselves.