Hannah Arendt

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.