I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

Only the dead know Brooklyn.

...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.