It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

There are only two things in life, ' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.