Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.