I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents you're kind of roughing it literally.

The result was that if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me 'Good God Vidal what happened to your face?' And I said 'Oh nothing madam I just fell over a hairpin.'

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning as if supported by the rays of the sun a bird settled on the fire escape joy in the task of coffee joy accompanied me as I walked.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

My life has been one great big joke a dance that's walked a song that's spoke I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.