Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but 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.

It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.