There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.