I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

The best dress for walking is nakedness.

I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.