The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

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.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.