The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.