Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.