But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you've just made a difference.

She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, “They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream?

I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that’s where my desire for you is sending me

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.