As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

The french fry is my canvas.

When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.

I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.