I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.

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

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.