“Chance is life's only certainty.”

“The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.”

“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradle...”

“The whiskey kicked like a mugger.”

“I dont mind if you dont like my manners. Theyre pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”

“Chance is life's only certainty.”

“...they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)”

“He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people died like dolls being discarded; in science fiction enormities of space and time conspired to cr...”

“That he had been born an artistin all waysa paragon of romantic torment out of the likes of some Bront novelhas yet to make itselfknown to him. He watches himself unfold.”

“You are the master of your emotions and you and only you have the power to control them external and internal.”