When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
After a full belly all is poetry.
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.