Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.