155 quotes
What the hell are they all looking for? A way out. A way to the right way out. A way to leave. A way to go. A way to have had it, to have had enough of it, to be done with it. A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all.
The Assyrians (1950)
The streets made me, and the streets stink, but I love them, for I was born in them out of flesh and I was born in them out of spirit.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
We know more than we need to know.
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
Through the air on the flying trapeze, his mind hummed. Amusing it was, astoundingly funny. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, a flying trapeze to some sort of eternity; he prayed objectively for strength to make the flight with grace.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.
I was four years old, and had long since reasoned that it was folly to expect the big things from people. It was enough to get the little things. The biggest thing, of course, was love, the nearness of somebody you love when you need somebody to be near.
Places Where I've Done Time (1972)
I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inaccessible, inside all and careless of all.
Here Comes There Goes You Know Who (1961)
I had three secrets and sold them all.
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
What I intended to do was to burn a half dozen of my books and keep warm, so that I could write my story, but when I looked around for titles to burn, I couldn't find any.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Then swiftly, neatly, with the grace of the young man on the trapeze, he was gone from his body.
For an eternal moment he was still all things at once: the bird, the fish, the rodent, the reptile, and man.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms, and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable: myself, my daemon, God, the human race, the world, time, pain, disorder, disgrace and death.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
A neighborhood has a kind of mystical identity which one scarcely suspects let alone notices while one is living there, for living uses up all of a man's time and attention. But in retrospect sooner or later a man remembers an old neighborhood and suddenly notices that there was something fantastic about the place.
Chance Meetings (1978)
My illness is life itself.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Art is what is irresistible.