When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.