In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.