Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.
Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.
[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.
If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.
Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help