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.

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

Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

I've never even done a residency.

Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!

When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.