Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

The springboard for your success is between your ears.

In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.

It's a big world for the idiots. If you're a writer, there are not many cities where you can go and feel normal.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

How can you measure acting in inches?

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.