So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

People who were so good. There were angels.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.