I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.