Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

May the Lord give you your heart desires.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

Let me into the darkness again.