New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

The earth is blue like an orange.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.