I was never a believer in decline.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company.

New York is such an awful place. No wonder it's so crowded. No wonder it's almost impossible to leave.

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.

A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.