I have never paid for fornication, and I don't intend to begin with you. When you come to me, and come to me you shall, you shall do so of your own accord and wholly free of all commerce and custom.

So you are the brash young lover returned from the dead?" the Frenchman finally said."And you are the devoted fiance returned from the card room, " Robert shot back...

A thinking man can never be brave.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

I don't want to be the president of the world. I'm the President of the United States.

If only you understood the way I felt... it wouldn't help much because I don't really like you as a person.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.