leonard Quotes

“Clarity affords focus.”

“I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.”

“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”

“My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.”

“My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.”

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”

“In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.”

“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”

“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.”

“Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.”