Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?