"I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!"

“People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.”

“To some people the impossible is impossible.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

“That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about”

“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”

“Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.”

“If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.”

“Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!”

“You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.”