Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...

New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.

I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.

When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes.

Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...

Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi, the ultimate didi and dada of Indian politics, should really commiserate.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.