The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

This body is breaking down, but I am not.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence.

I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.