Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

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

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassina­tion when I saw his picture flashed on television.