People hurt each other. That's what people do.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.