“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”

“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”

“I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.”

“"Is," "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.”

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”

“I can remember my first one-night stand like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not the first. Or the second… or the fifth. I'll just begin with what I can remember and not concern myself with order.”

“How you succeeded yesterday is water under the bridge, you have to reinvent yourself and look ahead for new accomplishments.”

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”

“Now I shall begin to build a new world. Celebrate the occasion with Me!”

“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”