I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

Show some mercy to your 'time', don't always waste it.

Complexity is the main enemy of security.

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

Rush Limbaugh, whether you hate him or not, he's a great entertainer; he's a great broadcaster.

We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.