In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.