Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

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

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!