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.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

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.

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.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.