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"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
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"I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed."
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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
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"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."

"I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act."

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
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