Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

history beats in longer periods than a man's heart

Live the way life does, love the way they does

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

You got to love to be able to play

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.