Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.