"In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp,..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.”

“Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.”

“The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.”

“You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!”

“Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.”

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

“Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.”

“The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.”

“New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.”