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

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?

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.

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

Some things are more important than safety.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.