"I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!"

"So it was that I gave about 1949 my 'Lecture on Nothing' at the Artists' Club on Eighth Street in New York …"

"Except for specialists such as market analysts and the like, economists as a professional group have had su…"

"Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now."

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."

"Compilations, to me, are embarrassing. To bring out a compilation, to me, is to say, "Look. I've got no new…"