It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

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

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

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