The tough times start," he said, "the day the last casserole dish is returned.
The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
