America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.