Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command, and other kinds of things they wanted in their relationships with their husbands, or partners or what have you, became for subsequent generations some license that they themselves feel, that is absolutely demeaning and mean younger and younger and younger.

The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.