New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies