It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, " the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

The silence is so deep it hurts our ears

Are you asking because you really want an answer?

A charming girl gets more proposals than a beautiful girl.

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.