I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Justice is a jagged road.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

O Stunden in der Kindheit, da hinter den Figuren mehr als nurVergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft.

There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.

The feet and their tappingWrite many a lovely coupletThe body dances to your rhythm O lordAfter all, you are the master and I a puppet

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.