I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ...”“Why?”“She often told me she was frightened of getting old...

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by.Rule one: don't taunt elephants.Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants.-Sergeant Schlock

The words ran away with me.

My siblings are my best friends.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

I'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship," "When did it end?" "Slightly before it started.