People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.