Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

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

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.