A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.

. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is n

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

[Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -

It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!