There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it.

Turning toward what you deeply love saves you