"I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it."

“It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has been the foundation of a long and loyal relationship with Gourmet Attitude, a supplier that has helped us offer our guests some of the highest quality imported truffles available in the U.S.”

“All the people I hung out with were musicians.”

“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”

Source : Nextbook Interview, September 14, 2004.

“Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.”

“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”

“Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.”

“Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.”

“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.”