History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

God is a name we give to love.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

The most valuable real estate for a man is the woman's mind.Many bloody battles have been fought for her mind space!

Learn to love yourself.

I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.