Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there’s a need,.

Anyone who calls it “sexual intercourse” can’t possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you’re ready for lunch by proclaiming, “I’d like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.”

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn’t pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn’t pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

The head coach don’t want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can’t love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can’t hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, “Cut! Strike it!” and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl – everything.

Adultery – which is the only grounds for divorce in New York – is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

A “Normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.”

There’s Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

After the Lincoln Hotel people showed their colors by demanding payment, we turned our back on them. We moved out.