She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.

Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.

Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.

Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

That's easy, " Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in the world, and that is peace and comfort.

Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.

Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.