I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.

I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.