Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.