"It is not the ghetto that is the problem, it is the mind of the ghetto."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

"The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you've got to find your own way to live and nobody can tell you how."

"The American ideal, after all, is to be so rich that you don't have to deal with anybody."