I despise people who can't control themselves.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

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

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.