“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”
“I thought: We are not close enough. I though: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.”
“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.”
“Somebody knocked, and I’m glad it wasn’t her. I mean I want her to come, but I thought it was him, so I ignored the knock and that’s why I’m glad it wasn’t her. I wouldn’t want to have ignored the very person I wanted to show up.”
“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”
“I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.”