Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

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.

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.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

New York is the only real city-city.