“Don't get your balls crossed about it.”

“I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.”

“If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital. If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough.”

“What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!”

“That’s what I love about boys,” Marion told him. “No matter what, you just go about your business.”

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

“You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.”