You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government.