"I’m giving up everything I can’t stand for Lent."

“Jake was being Subtle, which was only laughable; when he was straightforward he was incomprehensible.”

“Both time and reality have always been regarded suspiciously in the Village, and various pharmaceutical concoctions are purveyed to those who wish to circumvent them.”

“All of this did not take long, because when I argue with myself I always have the uncomfortable knowledge that I’m going to lose; therefore I do it fast to get it over with.”

“Everybody seemed to be in show business; what the hell had happened to the audience?”

“Let’s set a precedent and try to approach this thing logically.”

“The deadline was two months earlier, but like myself Mike considered deadlines in financial rather than chronological terms.”