It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in
To be free is to have achieved your life.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
What's talent but the ability to get away with something?
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos--...
It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
All good art is an indiscretion.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implaca...
We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.