And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.