When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

I mean, Donald Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet. And so I do believe that he has set up a plan where the revenue or the profits that are coming to the hotel will be given directly to the Treasury.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.