Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation

Only those who ignore d sea waves&tides to fish in deep waters can have abundance of fishes to feed their generation.

Everything in existence has a purpose

Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.