We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.

Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

Presents? We already bought you a lot of things. Member when we were at the market and I bought you gum? You'member.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can be right on the criminal-law issue.

He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword. -Hisagi Shuuhei