Art Buchwald: Idézetek angolul
“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”
As quoted in "Art Buchwald Celebrates His Life" a profile on CNN Newsroom (2 November 2006) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/02/cnr.06.html.
“I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.”
Comment to friends, as quoted in "Newspaper Columnist Art Buchwald Dies at 81" by Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post (18 January 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011800616_pf.html.
Time magazine (29 September 1986).
“Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.”
A humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
Leaving Home (1995).
“I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.”
Some Heady Phrases on Wine http://books.google.com/books?id=uFDq4ORNvPkC&q=%22I+like+champagne+because+it+always+tastes+like+my+foot's+asleep%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage, New York Herald Tribune (1954) http://goodgrape.com/index.php/articles/comments/wine_sediments6
“The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.”
On liquid diets, in New York Herald Tribune (29 December 1960).
Interview in The New York Times Book Review (1985), as quoted in Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns (1990) by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308.
“If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.”
International Herald Tribune (24 May 1989).
