“Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.”

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

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

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

We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

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.

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.

What’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.!

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Don’t be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

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

Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own.

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

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

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.

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers’ duel.

Soyinka’s Death at Dawn, Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith’s Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska’s Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you’re supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.