He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.