Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

You don’t choose your purpose, you simply discover it.

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.