The path of your life can change in an instant.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

But it was smell that carried memory.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Life without caution is like a car without brake.

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.