It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

God is a name we give to love.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.

One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..." "How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?

A man says to his mate: "My wife is a twin." His mate says, "How do you tell them apart?" The man says: "Her brother has a beard."

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.