I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

Traveling wears me out.

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

What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.