I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.

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.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Let's take everything just as it is.