The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.