One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.