I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

may my faith always beat the end of the daylike a hummingbird...returningto its favorite flower.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.

I love you enough for the both of us. And there must be something about me worth loving. If you would just try.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Surely, that's what interns were invented for?