I despise people who can't control themselves.

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

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

If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.