"Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable."

“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”

“I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.”

Source : Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday”

“All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.”

“After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.”

Source : "Miller: Turn Out Feds, Give Alaska Greater Control of Its Resources". www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2010.

“If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, dont laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if thats funny, then you laugh. If its not, you dont laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.”

Source : "If you don't want to hear an edgy joke, don't listen" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2012.

“And death makes equal the high and low.”

“One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.”

“Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.”

Source : "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.