(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.

They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.