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

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

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

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.

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.

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

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.