And always waiting, waiting for a decent chance to strike terror and admiration in the nearest mediocre heart.
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.
I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but
I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
I am always saying Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
