I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving one

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

I never seem to have any level of restraint with you, woman.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.