A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

What does it mean to be healthy? Heal Thy.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.