The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

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.

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

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.