A writer’s job is to make the ordinary extraordinary, to reveal the magic hidden in everyday life.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I’m just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn’t mean we are dating.