R- THE DON Quotes

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

I am so happy to be at Barclays Center. When I saw Brett Yormark, I thought to myself that he and his brother Michael are doing an amazing job.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

I like being close to the bats.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.