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In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

He should probably make love to her.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.