My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science

My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

I paint in order not to cry.

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.