I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.

-Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million.

O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa sempre lixado. Estou sempre a dizer « Prazer em conhecê-lo» a pessoas que não tive nenhum prazer em conhecer. Mas se queremos continuar vivos, temos de dizer estas tretas.