Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.