The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away.

Faith, Princess, " the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.