We are American at puberty. We die French.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

Women mostly remember the men who made them laugh, and men - only the women who made them cry.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.