That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

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.