Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

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

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

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.