You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.

You lose yourself, Erica, because with the right person, who you become together is something so much greater, more than you could even realize right now.

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.

As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.