The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

The old Televisions had an off switch.

The devil doesn’t need to invent any new temptations

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.