I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

"It's him," I said. "Typhon." I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.