That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.