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.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

That's not writing, that's typing

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

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.