A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

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.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.