Failed expectations ruin marriages and kills love in the process. You and your partner deserve to know what you’re both getting into… and knowing now is better than later. .

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.