Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.