I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.