No disrespect' is a world away from respect--and admiration.

I want to create, not kill.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

If I thought someone was just chatting me up because of being on TV, it'd kill me.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.