Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.

He found me when I was at my lowest point.