Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.

We mock the things we are to be.

I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.