On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...