I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one th….

It’s history. It’s poetry..

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but qu….

Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where….

That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't..

But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private ….

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman..

I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it..

Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you..

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one..

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them.….

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands..

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever hear….

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane..

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure someb….

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so..

If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me..

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't..

Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay w….

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row..