Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

I've never been a teacher in my life.