"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."

“These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,”

“The loss of friends is a tax on age!”

“We had President Obama on the show last night. I think the president enjoys visiting NBC because we're the only place that has lower numbers than he does.”

“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.”

“Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.126, Heyday

“I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.”

Source : "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

“The truer the facts the better the fiction.”