I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

I been away a long time.