Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

He hiccupped and continued: "I write therefore I come...But unfortunately, my orgies are never eternal!...

Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated

In an infinite Universe anything can happen.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.