That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and f…

- Ira Levin

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, …

- Ira Levin

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

- Ira Levin

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

- Ira Levin

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

- Ira Levin

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a wom…

- Ira Levin

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

- Ira Levin

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in man…

- Ira Levin