To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

Human life is too difficult for people.

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.