However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.
I like to breed players that attack people.
I was a young lad when I was growing up.
I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.
Not a Harvard-type education,. . . Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower. . . Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass. , where I studied for 12 years.