"With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes."

“I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.”

“New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.”

Source : Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.16, Bitingduck Press LLC

“Circumstances alter faces.”

“There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.”

“Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.”

“A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.”

“In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .”

“It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.”