Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films, ' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.