Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.