Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

Life with books makes my world complete.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.

Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not.

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.