You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

Man begets, but land does not beget.

You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines.

I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?