A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.