Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

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.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.