I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.
Oh, this happiness is strong stuff. It's marvelously liberating.
I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.
How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of concentrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose?
How do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't.
If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tel...
When you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write Fuck you right under your nose.
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts....
It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a tho...
New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.
No cuenten nunca nada a nadie. En el momento en que uno cuenta cualquier cosa, empieza a echar de menos a todo el mundo.
People always clap for the wrong things.
If were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.
Oh, Romeo and Juliet! Lovely! Didn’t you just love it?She certainly didn’t sound like a nun. Yes. I did. I liked it a lot. There were a few things I didn`t like about it, but it was quite moving, on t...
As you damned well know, we never change much in our hearts.
You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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