Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

Good writing is rewriting.

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.

I know the next best thing is often the very best.

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.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.