In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.