If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Justice is a jagged road.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

When you start living under the shadow of somebody, you lose your own personality and your own passions.

I’m sure I look a wreck. But he’s the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he’s done.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.