Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.

Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.