I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.