We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.