“You walk down the street at night. It's raining out. The only sound is that of your own feet. There are city sounds too, but these you don't hear because at the end of the street is the woman you've been waiting for for seven long years and each muffled tread of your footsteps takes you closer and closer and the sound of them marks off seconds and days and months of waiting.
Then, suddenly, you're there, outside a dark-faced building, a brownstone anachronism that stares back dully with the defiant expression of the moronic and you have an impending sense of being challenged.”
The Snake (1964)
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American writer 1918–2006Related quotes

Theatre Arts magazine, June 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=9ENNAAAAYAAJ

Baker Street.
Song lyrics, City to City (1978)

“Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy.”
Take It Easy

60 Minutes interview (2006)