A character is what he does$$$ yes - but even more$$$ a character is what he means to do.

What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away$$$ the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas$$$ a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there.

I despise people who can't control themselves.

...It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

They can romanticize us so$$$ mirrors$$$ and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

Randolph$$$ he said$$$ "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old."

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.

If there is no mystery$$$ for the artist$$$ to solve inside of his art$$$ then there's no point in it. . . . for me$$$ every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.