You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

A big city is a big ocean

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.