The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

May you will have the grace to complete the task.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

I'm happily married but it's absolutely heavenly.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?

After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.