5 Quotes by E. L. Doctrow

I want you to get a haircut so you don't look like Ish Kabibble on a rainy night.

..it is a fact that money exhilarates people, it puts them in hysterias of good cheer, they suddenly care about you and want the best for you.

And the men who got down from the cab were not ordinary truck drivers in soft caps and mackinaws but men in overcoats and fedoras with a way of lighting their cigarettes in their cupped hands while the teamsters on inside duty backed the trucks into the black depths...

Mr. Schultz did impulsive and unwise things, and I worried that I was one of them.

..there was always a chance, that as bad as things were, America was a big juggling act and that we could all be kept up in the air somehow, and go around not from hand to hand, but from light to dark, from night to day, in the universe of God after all.