I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

Never get out of bed before noon.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them