"Nine Stories" Quotes

I'm most frightfully sorry, sir, I cannot hear you at all. Are you speaking from a bad connection?

I'm innocent as a lamb.

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

I think it's bad to talk too much about yourself.

I can't help it. I put everybody on a pedestal. People have to measure up to that.

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me.

I've got to keep thinking up new ways of doing this. Of not becoming a phony.

I'm not afraid to dream or to make plans, but I must learn to face each moment with courage.

I'm fed up with not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm fed up with myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of splash.