Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?

Now it's time for amasians... That's Asians doing something amazing.

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.

Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.