Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there, ' Mrs. Phipps said.

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

I know everything except myself.

Eva [Braun] and I were never involved in the financial aspects of where [Adolf] Hitler put her up.

When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.