Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Business is fluid and you can always improve and progress as your time and financial resources allow, and as your learningcurve shortens.

You can't burn memories, Jerri. I guess you know that now.

Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.