The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

No matter how good you act to be tough, your emotions will flow without your control...

Love is ease.

...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.