"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
"I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice."
"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."
"If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you"signs in the world. It's impossible."
"I think that one of these days,"he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."