There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

if you don't play with relations and respect to love you may get hurt And spend life in pain but you will die in rest.

I was running in circles, I hurt myself, just to find my purpose. Everything was so worthless, I didn't deserve this, but to me you were perfect.

The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.