I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.

I waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

All around you everything is on the move.

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.

I have found the one whom my soul loves.

Thank you for bringing me home.