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In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.