New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

The reason why things work is because of love.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Politics is applesauce.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.