Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

He was the perfectly flawed man.

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

Life, I've got lots of friends. I don't complain.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.