Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Marcel Proust

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

William Jefferson Clinton

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

Jack Kemp

Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

Lewis Black

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Christian Dior

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Claude Bernard

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at theroulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Steven Wright

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

Is there no way out of the mind?

Sylvia Plath

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

Harold Ross