You must ignore the bad and adopt the good..

What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live..

Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts..

Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong..

He will love only once - but it will be for always..

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that..

Fear is the beginning of wisdom..

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased..

I rather like the idea of defying death..

I begin by not photographing..

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?.

The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you..

I couldn't kill a fly..

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody..

You have to be willing to recognize failure..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia..

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

It can always get worse..