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

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

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

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.