The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

I just like to build things and do things.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

For me, box step-ups and power clean [exercises] is by far the best.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.