I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.