The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.