I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation just barely missed it, which I don't think is a good thing or a bad thing.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.