I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.

I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening?

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists

Adam lived 930 years. He never got to know his mother in law.

Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

The early firings contained many stones.

I think everybody should be "pro-love."

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.