The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.