I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

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

if somebody at least listens it not too bad

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.