Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

I've dated many different types. I was all over the map. For me, it was learning about being attracted to the right things in a person, not the wrong things.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.