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

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 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.

True love finds its own waysTo spread goodness, always.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Music’s a wood you walk through.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I am impressed with just the enthusiasm for life and the fact that some of these people are in their 80's, even 90's, and they're absolutely determined to get out there and make a difference.

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.