"To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years."

“Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.”

Source : "Eddie Trunk Slams The Grammy’s: 'They Just Have No Clue At All When It Comes To Rock And Heavy Metal'". Interview with Ben Smith, eddietrunk.com. January 27, 2014.

“The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.”

“Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.”

Source : George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.155

“If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges.  Do you understand that?  So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources.  If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials.  People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.”

“As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.”

“We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.”

“After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.”

“The world needs a strong America.”