Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.