[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.