Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

I'm not a character in any of my books.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.