When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.