You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.

When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?' He says, 'So my master will suffer loss.'

Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.