There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.