“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.”

“What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend ...”

“How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?”

“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.”

“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.”

“Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.”

“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.”

“If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.”

“Nobody the dead man & Nobody the livingNobody is giving in & Nobody is givingNobody hears me but just Nobody caresNobody fears me but Nobody just staresNobody belongs to me & Nobody remainsNo Nobod...”

“I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody!”

“One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'”

“By having the Holy Spirit inside us, we can spread the Kingdom of God wherever we go”