Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

In life, be a kid in a candy store.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.

You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.

Never have children, only grandchildren.