I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

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.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.