“A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.”

“If you have to do it, you can do it.”

“She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.”

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”

“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”

“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.”

“O.K.""Gee I'm glad.""Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river.""You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?""Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.”