Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

‘Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio’s parachute, a Met banner held high. His goal was to spur our home team to success, Burst Beantown’s balloon claiming Sox were the best.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.

I’ve had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, How do you know what the future is going to be like? And I’d always say, I don’t.