Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

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

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.