When we buy books we're fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them.

Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do, " I muttered.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

One time I tried to marry a chicken.

My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.