"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."

"Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?"

"There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage."

"Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people."

"Silence is the unbearable repartee."

"It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy."