Year Quotes

I’ve been a lot of other things over the years, which we don’t really want to talk about.

I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.

I’m not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I’m the publishers’ friend – I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

It’s the rhythm that gets to the kids – they’re starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

There are many who are around for 15-20 years and like to call themselves king. There is only one king and he is Amitabh Bachchan