there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.