“How can you govern a country with two hundred thirty-eight varieties of cheese?”
“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
“Tell me–how old are you, Reuben? I'm thirty-eight. How is that for total honesty? Do you know many women who volunteer they're thirty-eight?”
“Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.”
“The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”
“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don’t see them.”