Quotes from Albert Goldman

Late in November, Lenny took off for his eagerly anticipated job in Chicago. It had been nearly a year since he played the chilly city, and those who hadn't seen him for that period, or even longer, were shocked at the change in his appearance. The once handsome, animated, brilliant performer and commentator was now a fat, bent, shabby-looking street loafer, a horribly dissipated, baggy-eyed, numb-fleshed junkie, with a tragic darkness in his eyes.

Chapter 7 The Sickest of the Sick

Chapter 8 "America's No. 1 Vomic" (Winchell)

Dope broke the back of this already moribund

Chapter 6 Open Up Those Golden Gates

at the core of whatever made this human atom pile smolder he wasn't cooking anymore. He was all bottled

No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man's personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.