Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.