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.

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.

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

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.

Is there any force like faith?

The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.

IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Making little videos that you know are going to be on tiny windows is a whole different thing. I don't know what it's going to lead to necessarily, but it's certainly fun.