Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Where is my oasis? Too far fromhere for me to crawl with thesedead legs, refusing to co-operateHands and fingers clawing uselesslythrough the grains of sand...

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.