These days I mostly worry ‘bout my bank account/I ain’t backin’ out ‘til I own a bank to brag about.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

Courage is morally neutral.

They aimless halt, who halt for others.

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.