The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.