Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

You can see now with all the assurance that people have about the overall general management of the economy, they then ask more specific questions that we are able to answer.