A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
I definitely do want a family. The idea of being a father and providing the type of love, guidance and support that my parents have given me is definitely down the road.
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
