It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.

Every burden is a blessing.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

Sometimes the only way you can win is to stay out of the game.

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.