"Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living."
“It began with a shattered dream.”
“It's like the unheard resonance in bebop that Bird and Dizzy were striving for: you can somehow visualize or imagine that things will be different.”
"The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped."
"David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes."
Thanks to all this, inside there’s a lot of silence and anyone can sit down to read the paper or talk with someone else or even do nothing.
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
