To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.