There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.