What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.