My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.