What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

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.