When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worke….

Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to re….

I don't do live things..

People had tell me the most personal things. People I'd never met before would say thing like "Oh, that was the summer I had an affair with my neighb….

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in l….

It is poetry that changes everything..

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.

I am happy being what I am..

This is something that Randi Weingarten said to me when I interviewed her once, which I think I quote in chapter nine. She talks about how only 7 per….