His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

You like it in jail?""It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

You like it in jail?It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

Love keeps my heart warm.,

sometimes bravery lies in stepping down from the last step for the better result of mankind and that's where life differentiate between best and the great ones.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

Don't compromise your principles.

The free man is a warrior.

I was determined not to remain poor.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.