I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.