Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Be a leader for the right reasons”.

If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?

Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.