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.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

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.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly

When you said no time for love, I heard needy expression of love.

I live in a world where not being molested as a child is considered luck.

I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.