I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Faith is the receiver of grace

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

Philosophy is doubt.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.