That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.

History is never surprising after it happens.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.