Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else.
Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more. . . fun to pet, better to chew.
I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.