I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.