Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.