I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.

Don't bother about those who can't understand you, because they don't deserve you for what you are.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different city every day.

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.