The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.