Hoboken is a neat place.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.

He’d reached that perilous stage of being drunk enough to think himself a good dancer… but was dangerously close in tipping over to the point where he’d act like an arse

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippmann.

I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

My education is the most important thing so I always have to make time for it.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.