“I'd give my right arm to be enthusiastic.”

“He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.”

“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”

“I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.”

“We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that.""My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.”

“My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.”

“I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written.”