That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you.

Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.