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It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. — Kenneth Koch

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. — Kenneth Koch

It also has to do with my profession. In my profession, true relaxation is a necessity. — Herman Koch

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. — Ed Koch

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are. — Charles Koch

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.' — Ed Koch

To learn something new every day is still exciting! — Ed Koch

AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIAN
What is the aesthetician
But a mule hitched to the times? — Kenneth Koch

We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line. — Gini Koch

Unhappiness loves company. Unhappiness can't stand silence - especially not the uneasy silence that settles in when it is all alone. — Herman Koch

Around here, we're as happy as God in France. — Herman Koch

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen. — Edward I. Koch

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected. — David H. Koch

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag. — Ed Koch

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? — Ed Koch

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition. — Richard Koch

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too. — Richard Koch

Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. — Herman Koch

Some people need a kick in the ass, others just need to think less for a couple of hours. — Herman Koch

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific! — Ed Koch

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways. — Richard Koch

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate. — Ed Koch

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries. — Charles Koch

All these heads, I thought. All these heads into which everything disappears. — Herman Koch

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value, — Charles Koch

Even when you act like nothing is happening, something happens - I don't know how to put it any more clearly. It's — Herman Koch

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat. — Richard Koch

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them. — Howard E. Koch

I'm very proud to know the Koch brothers. This may be a breaking news announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother. — Herman Cain

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive. — Ed Koch

Winkler-Koch benefited directly from this project, which was designed to help enable the fuel policy of the Third Reich. — Jane Mayer

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care. — Ed Koch

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! — Kenneth Koch

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile. — Howard E. Koch

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market. — Charles Koch

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. — Ed Koch

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty. — Charles Koch

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. — Ed Koch

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. — Kenneth Koch

My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity. — Gini Koch

A look says more than words alone. That's a cliche, of course. But a cliche, also says more than words alone. — Herman Koch

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. — Ed Koch

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? — Howard E. Koch

We lifted up and then bobbed.
"Back! Pull it back!" (Christopher)
"It's hard." (Kitty)
"The ground is harder!" (Christopher) — Gini Koch

Yeah, I know. It's one of my plans. It'll go all Dog Day Afternoon somewhere along the line. But a girl can dream, can't she? — Gini Koch

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. — Kenneth Koch

The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really. — Gini Koch

I do believe in God. — Christopher Koch

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch

I hope that's working like we wanted it to."
"It's a plan of yours, Kitty. I'm sure it's going to go haywire somewhere. — Gini Koch

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized. — Ed Koch

I'm with the Naked Ape." Jareen said. "Let's get in there and kick some evil overlord butt. — Gini Koch

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. — Kenneth Koch

Impressive lack of something happening, Maurice said nervously. I continued to fire. I — Gini Koch

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid. — David H. Koch

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything. — Charles Koch

Psychos and megalomaniacs are my forte, remember? They all wanna hang with me — Gini Koch

Anger made her prettier. Especially her eyes - it was a look that put men to shame. — Herman Koch

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you. — Edward I. Koch

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is. — Richard Koch

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. — Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! — Ed Koch

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. — John Charles Chasteen

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, — Ed Koch

They didn't answer. But I was thinking. I'd had to do a lot of thinking like this over the past year, and it was starting to come naturally. — Gini Koch

The unseen world is what emanates from God. — Christopher Koch

A basso sings, and a soprano answers him.
Then there is thunder in a clear blue sky,
And, from the earth, a sigh: This song is finished. — Kenneth Koch

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility. — Charles Koch

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. — Ed Koch

We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly. — Charles Koch

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. — Ed Koch

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. — Kenneth Koch

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. — Ed Koch

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society. — Charles Koch

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. — Kenneth Koch

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God. — Christopher Koch

I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested. — Gini Koch

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system. — Richard Koch

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal. — David H. Koch

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it. — Charles Koch

That's the oppressive thing about happiness, the way everything is out on the table like an open book: — Herman Koch

AESTHETICS OF OPERA
Don't sing an aria
To someone who can't
Sing one back. — Kenneth Koch

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether. — Richard Koch

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity. — Charles Koch

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. — Ed Koch

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal. — Charles Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. — Ed Koch

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade. — Charles Koch

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town. — Pete Hamill

If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist. — Ed Koch

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans. — Ed Koch

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves. — Kenneth Koch

Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and need. — Charles Koch

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. — Ed Koch

I believe in gay marriage. — David H. Koch

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. — Kenneth Koch

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many. — Howard W. Koch