Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Two eggs do not an omelette make
There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.
It's nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he'll bring a drill or something.
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.
Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.