"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."

“To remember everything is a form of madness.”

Source : Brian Friel, Csilla Bertha, Mária Kurdi (2006). “Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "the Work Has Value"”, p.215, Peter Lang

“Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.”

“I watched you for years,” she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. “I watched you and you never saw me.”

“Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.”

Source : "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

“These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.”

“So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.”

“As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.”

“I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.”