“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

“I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.”

“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”

“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”

“We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.”

“[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”

“Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”