"Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them."

-- Karl Kraus

“Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.”
“My space is small. My life is big.”
“Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.”

Source : Maureen Dowd (2006). “Are Men Necessary When Sexes Collide”
“You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.”
“With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.”
“I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.”
“There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.”

Source : Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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