Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.

Smoking is suicide by instalments.

An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.

When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

You have to break in half to love somebody.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.