Is it possible to find your future in the past?

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.