I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.

Life teach you everything either you want to learn it or not ....

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party