Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday?

... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box.... and the balls to use it.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.