"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.