Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?

The law has no power over heroes.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.