In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

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

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.