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“Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.”
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“When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?”
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“Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.”
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“If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.”
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“There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.”
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“You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.”
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“Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.”
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“nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.”
