I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.

There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

There can only be one king.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

I'm a decent man who exports flowers.

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

We don’t “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

In syndication, the biggest buyers are car dealerships.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.