Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear..

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theat….

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you c….

God, I wish you could have been there..

The sentence im reading is terrific..

He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as ful….

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think..

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it..

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door..

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do..

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were..

People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it..

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to..

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs..

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I….

Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size ….

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write….

It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of ….

I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and litera….