The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.