Tax should be the same for everybody.

Debates are boring.

My parents were immigrants.

Hate sells.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.

There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.