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

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.

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.

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

Where does love reveal itself? In beds, sofas, bathtubs – each section of a department store has its advantages.

I prefer a story to a prayer.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.

I have a troubled relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, not just because he kicked me out of a bar but also because it's become clear to me that he was not a good person.

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.