And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Before proving it to someone else, I had to be able to prove it to myself.

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.

Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes