Talent is a valued tormentor.

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.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

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.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.