A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.