The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
I’m not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you’re a New Yorker.
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for one’s self-respect to be a punching bag.
If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.
You don’t have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City’s got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.