What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.

I'm scarcely an enfant!

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.