School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn`t all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.
I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get letters from people in prison; they thought that I was somebody whom they could shop-talk with, and they would tell me very funny stories. I got a lot of those. Guys who were going to wind up doing 10 to 15 for bank robbery, yes, were reading my books.
Sometimes I just like to listen to unknown people, that can be really, really cool. I like going on blogs and stuff.