Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.