I know the next best thing is often the very best.

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.