As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

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

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!