From where they stood, they could see the castle.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

From where they stood, they could see the castle.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

But the goal of the arts culinary or otherwise is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

If love is the answer could you rephrase the question

I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash.

I've always wanted to sing country music.

I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

By that sin fell the angels.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

I like to run.

I love the sun and salt water, which is not good for your skin and therefore not good for your image. I'm terrible about protecting my skin as well.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

Anyone who bombs is my friend.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.