Passion precedes prosperity.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

My work ethic is from sports.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.