“A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.”

“I write-down to speak-up.”

“When you make an observation, you have an obligation.”

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]”

“Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.”

“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”