A man without a home can't be lost.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

See the cat? See the cradle?