The clothes have no emperor.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I’d like to believe I’m an expert.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Choose your customers, choose your future.

We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.