Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

What's often not acknowledged about depression is how much anger is in it.

I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.

So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?

It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.

When two hearts believe, love makes things possible.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Yes, Consul. The next time one of our esteemed members turns into a worm and eats another esteemed member, we will inform you immediately.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

Don't instantly throw yourself into external demands.

I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.