Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed, ' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

We need a doer, not a talker.

One must always be careful of books.

Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

My life is not just about the past.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.