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

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.

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.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.