“You sentimentalize property, you can kiss profits goodbye.”— Paul Kolsby, Marty Byrde, Jason Bateman, imdb.com
“No matter who or what you're dealing with, people build up meaning between themselves and the things around them . . . Being bright has nothing to do with it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I don’t know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat who wrote the song is trying to say. I’ve been there…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“I hate being around alcoholics because they're either telling you how much they love you or how much they hate you. And those are the two statements that scare me the most.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”— Nelson Algren, amazon.com