i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

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

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.