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

I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.