yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.