This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes Then then methinks how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.