“I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.”

“All gave some, Some gave all.”

“He'll get tired of chasing someone who doesn't chase back!”

“Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.”

“Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!”

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”

“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."[Writer’s Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer’s Digest, February 1976)]”