. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

A sight to dream of, not to tell!