“There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.”

“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”

“To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.”

“If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?”

“It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford being associated with someone who might at any given moment write a poem in public.”

“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.”

“Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.”