Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

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

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.