Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

I am not a role model.

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.

A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.