The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

be my sonata, my cantata, my lovesing me something sweetbut not too sweet(or i may grow deaf to our harmonyas we decrescendo into silence)

People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is.

Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Each person can achieve balance by cutting a few things out and seeing how it goes. If you cut something out, and it goes well, and your life is better, you keep doing it.

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Why do we 'drive' on a 'parkway' but 'park' at a 'strip club'?

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.