Country is the pace where your friends are.

Marriage is a duet or duel.

Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

Homesickness for the gutter.

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

When the people are not enlightened enough to exercise intelligent control, you take it from them, not to command their lives, but to create a safe depository for the ultimate powers.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

I feel like Elvis. Only alive.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.