Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

God is a name we give to love.

A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.

The sword has no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.