"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."

“Islam is politics or it is nothing.”

Source : "Islamic Revolution" by Bernard Lewis, www.nybooks.com. January 21, 1988.

“Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.”

“Effort is between you and you.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 28, 2017

“You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

“I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.”

Source : "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

“These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.”

“My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.”

“The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.”