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The dream begins...

The dream begins...

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes...

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You'd better do...

You'd better do...

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try...

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Politics makes strange...

Politics makes strange...

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

Source: My Summer in a Garden, Fifteenth Week ...

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Being slightly paranoid...

Being slightly paranoid...

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant -- it tends to get worse.

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If we practiced...

If we practiced...

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in...

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Never hesitate to...

Never hesitate to...

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Source: Confessions of a S.O.B., 1989.
--...

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Art and ideology...

Art and ideology...

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw...

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At the moment...

At the moment...

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Source: Quoted in: Sunday Times ...

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I've arrived at...

I've arrived at...

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I...

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Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course...

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If you commit...

If you commit...

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you...

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Dagobert Runes: Experience makes for...

Dagobert Runes: Experience makes for...

Experience makes for shrewdness; it's the heart that makes for wisdom.

Source: A...

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It amazes me...

It amazes me...

It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning the rest of their...

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Idealism is fine;...

Idealism is fine;...

Idealism is fine; but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes prohibitive.

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Everything in Italy...

Everything in Italy...

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand. . . borders upon insanity and absurdity --or at least is...

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Lovers of air...

Lovers of air...

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of...

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Parents, however old...

Parents, however old...

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As...

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The more I...

The more I...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. . . . this spontaneous talking back to a book [is] one of the things...

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Voyager, there are...

Voyager, there are...

Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.

Source: In Words of...

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When a woman...

When a woman...

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is...

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