The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.