"Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot."

“Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.”

“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech”

“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.”

“There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.”

“My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.”

Source : "On Becoming a Lawyer" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. June 20, 2013.

“I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.”

“We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.”

“There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.”