Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.