You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.