You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza....

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.