Twenty Quotes

I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,

I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

I’m pissed off. ‘Cause I knew I did something wrong. I’ll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.

I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

Przybilla can’t guard me when I’m 27, 37 or 47.