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

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.