I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.