A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.