I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.