I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I….

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it..

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that ….

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea..

"Dukes of Hazzard" or something you could, you know that, your work is going to be made up of that - episodic television shows. Not that I got many o….

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can beco….

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good ..

'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. ….

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see wha….

Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual s….