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.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

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.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

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.

I'm not a character in any of my books.