"Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve."

“Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have made; more willing, in some cases, to entertain the possibility of getting along with countries who some would call an adversary, such as Mr. Putin's Russia.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

“I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.”

“Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.”

“The art of making art, is putting it together....”

Source : "Sunday in the Park with George". Musical by Stephen Sondheim, May 2, 1984.

“Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.”

“I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.”

Source : Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.66, U of Nebraska Press

“Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get...”

“In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.”