How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

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.

She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

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

Give me an honest con man any day.