If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

Hoboken is a neat place.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

Shall I be'her'?

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in George W. Bush.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.