The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.