If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

The great thing about golf - and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it - you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.