“If you love someone, you’d rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.”

I’m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

In the cold of a winter’s night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn’t be cold. You’d kill anyone who tried to harm the.

When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors?

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

I think mine is a very rich life.

She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

…the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only – the something different from anyone else in the two families.

It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life – the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.

You won’t die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Well, there’s a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.

And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.

If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn’t have said sampling.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it

It makes you feel really comfortable when someone is like, I’m not going to touch what you’re doing.

Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you’re looking out for someone

If you really like someone, it doesn’t matter what their mouth feels or tastes like.