"Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband."

"Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us."

"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."

"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."

"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."

"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."

"My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it."

"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."

"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."