It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

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

It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

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

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

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.