“Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”
“One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.”
“Everybody achieves success in life—a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards”
“Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!”
“Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.”
“But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.”