Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation