He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.