My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

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.

He's sort of a Svengali... It means someone who's manipulative. More than that: somebody who makes you think that you need him in order to accomplish anything.

We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall