Budd Schulberg Quotes

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read.

"Sure," Sammy said, "I never said I had anything against reading books..."

"The publishers will be relieved to know that," I tried to insert, but Sammy was too quick for me and was already rounding the bend of his next sentence.

The principal furniture in Billie's mind was a good-sized bed.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.