In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

Your pain is your own until you put it to music, then it belongs to everyone. You'll find it lightens the load.

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.