To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

To flee from sin is to retain heaven on earth

Without the author there is nothing.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder