The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

I think some songs are better on vinyl.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

I just want to fill the hearts and minds of the people who listen to my music

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.