I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, your halfway to Asphodel already.

I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

I now consider the money I put into my pension to have been a mistake.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

The secret in riding is to do only a few things but to do them right

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us