I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.