The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.
I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club.
I'm a born-again atheist.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.