I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.

Our fathers were demons, ' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Never give a sucker an even break.