Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.