I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

I don't like seeing people angry.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.